I know the title makes this combination seem like a strange crossover game or movie, in a perfect world this would be true, and awesome. Instead we live in the crappy real world where our game characters can’t beat up on movie characters.

For those that don’t know, Avatar awards are items you earn in a game for you Xbox 360 Avatar to wear, hold or play with. Left 4 Dead 2 is getting some for 360 gamers to enjoy. Kotaku has a small list of those awards.

I’ll just let the director, George Miller, do the talking. He seems to be doing a lot of casting work, and getting things ready for filming. I’m glad he’s taking the movie seriously and putting some effort into it.

The movie has a $100 Million budget and will be shooting in various locations in Australia.

Some more zombie news for you all. A man in Iowa was punched in the face while ordering food. Why does this involve zombies?

The man that was punched was called a zombie by another man, then hit in the face. The Zombie-ish victim tried to call the police on his cell phone, but was hit again resulting in a broken nose.

The man then ran out the back door of the restaurant, and the victim was taken to the hospital.

While I want to award the puncher for his quick action in taking down a zombie, he also gets a demerit cause the “zombie” spoke to him. Zombie’s can’t talk, nor do they order food. Unless the moans for flesh and brains is them placing an order…

Whoa whoa whoa..Calm down, put the shotgun away. Zombies didn’t really invade a mall, at least not real zombies. On October 11th a group of 2,000 people dressed as zombies and “invaded” Monroeville Mall.

This hoard of the undead shambled through the mall George A. Romero used for his zombie tale Dawn of the Dead. For other zombie fans, that mall is not just a shopping center, but a cultural icon.

The Wall Street Journal has a write up of the event along with a great gallery of images from the invasion.

Don’t worry, you’re getting a second chance! Now I know the game is retail right now, so beta doesn’t apply to this. Instead, it’s a free weekend to give Champs a try! This Halloween weekend everyone can play for free. The offer only lasts from 10:00 a.m.October 30th to 10:00 a.m. November 2nd, pacific time.

Also, the weekend event includes the Champions: Online Halloween activities, complete with a zombie invasion…cause you can never have too many of those…

A lot of stuff has been going on recently. School has doubled if not tripled its work load on me. So trying to juggle employment and school work, along with this shining beacon of internet goodness, is a difficult task. Also doesn’t help that Borderlands has completely taken over my gaming life.

So where is everyone else? Haven’t seen anything from the other writers here in a month! A MONTH! Not sure what’s going on there. I will continue the postifications as long as you guys keep reading.